Blue Marble Navigator Dark Skies Map

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Blue marble navigator dark skies map.

Here you can browse their maximum resolution of four pixels per km as well as a slightly coarser night lights map enhanced by town names and national borders. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. Display of a section of the 86400 43200 blue marble pictures that nasa derived from imagery taken in 2004. Sortable dark site listing add a new dark site how to see the milky way how to see the aurora color scale meaning more astronomy links.

Nasa s next generation blue marble imagery available here is a set of 12 monthly composite images of the entire earth using 500 meter resolution imagery from the modis satellite the blue marble navigator offers a convenient interface to view this imagery along with several other useful options. Our work international dark sky places fixture seal of approval parks and protected areas sea turtle conservation education and outreach. Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy. Next generation offers a year s worth of.

This map is based on light pollution data updated in 2006 by david lorenz. Nasa blue marble navigator. Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy. Welcome to the improved darksitefinder light pollution map.

The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations with a spatial resolution level of detail of 1 square kilometer per pixel. The shown section is 720 600 by default but can be resized using the and buttons at the top. Clicking near the edge of the picture moves the focus into the respective direction clicking on its center zooms in and back out thus switching between 4 and 0 5 gigapixel. Here are some useful links.

And don t forget to c heck out the globe at night interactive light pollution map data created with eight years of data collected by citizen scientists. After selecting your initial location from a world map the main interface comes up. Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s national geophysical data center.